How to add Free SSL Certificate on Website or Blog.

Google has announced recently that every website and blog should come with SSL certificate and it will help in rank faster in Google. There are lots of hosting companies out there that provide free SSL certificate. But, Some of the hosting companies doesn’t offer free SSL certificate such as Godaddy etc.

There are lots of websites out there also that provides free SSL certificate such as Zerofreessl.com, Letsencrypt.org and Cloudfare.com. You need to renew it every three months, means you don’t need to pay for it. It is free for lifetime. But SSL certificate by Cloudflare gets renewal automatic. It is the best thing for SSL. You don’t need to renew free SSL certificate after every three months to activate SSL If you are getting SSL by Cloudflare. Therefore I am going to enable SSL through Cloudflare.

Today I’m going to show you how to activate the free SSL certificate for Godaddy hosting using Cloudflare. Also, if you are using another hosting platform even then the process will be the same almost.

Step 9: -There are three screenshots I mentioned below. You don’t need to do anything with the first two screenshots. You need to click on continue on the 3rd screenshot. (See below)

Step 10: – Thus, your Cloudflare account has created. Click on Overview and see name server in Red Mark, I didn’t mention proper name server due to security reason. (See below screenshot)

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Now It is time to go to your hosting platform and change name server there. I use Godaddy hosting. So I am going to show how to change hosting name server to Cloudflare server using Godaddy hosting. Almost the same steps will be there for another hosting platform.

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Now you need to add two plugins in your WordPress to get the Green lock, means SSL certificate for your website. Therefore, I’ m going to show step by step procedure to install and activate the plugin.

Step 1:- Go to your WordPress dashboard and click on Plugin and then click on Add New. (See below screenshot)

Step 2: – After that, search for Cloudflare in the keyword section and then click on Install Now. (See below screenshot)